. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . •234 Pictures of Bird Life. Purple Heron {Ardea purpurea), automatically photographed by theBird itself treading on an Electric Trap connected with HiddenCamera. Presently the rising of several Spoonbills from the reedsshows that their nesting-plaee is not far away; and as thepunt leaves the ehannel, and is foreed throiioh the tliiek reed-bed. Spoonbills are getting np all around us in every , after niueh exertion, the first nest becomes visiblethrough the reeds. On a large and bulky platform of sticks and de
. Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh . •234 Pictures of Bird Life. Purple Heron {Ardea purpurea), automatically photographed by theBird itself treading on an Electric Trap connected with HiddenCamera. Presently the rising of several Spoonbills from the reedsshows that their nesting-plaee is not far away; and as thepunt leaves the ehannel, and is foreed throiioh the tliiek reed-bed. Spoonbills are getting np all around us in every , after niueh exertion, the first nest becomes visiblethrough the reeds. On a large and bulky platform of sticks and dead reedswe can make out three nearly Hedged young birds standingup. Tnfortimately, howc\er, the noise necessarily made inforcing our clumsy craft along has alarmed them so nuiclithat two out of the three, after hesitating on tlie brink,.scramble out, and, plunging through the water, finally dis- Bird Life in Dutch Marshes 235 appear. Several others from neighbouring nests do thesame, but eventually we find one nest whose occupants arenot quite so fully developed. The scene is a most striki
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